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The Box of Delights

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The Box of Delights	comment	The Box of Delights is a children's fantasy novel by John Masefield, first published in 1935.Kay Harker, the protagonist of The Midnight Folk, is on his way home from boarding school for the Christmas holidays when a mysterious encounter leads him on a series of adventures.Better known to many people through the 1984 TV adaptation.
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The Box of Delights / int_2d364c81	type	Tomboy and Girly Girl
The Box of Delights / int_2d364c81	comment	Tomboy and Girly Girl: Kay's friend Maria, who is really into guns, and her sister Susan, who prefers butterflies.
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The Box of Delights / int_319e4a2f	type	Even Evil Has Standards
The Box of Delights / int_319e4a2f	comment	Even Evil Has Standards: Abner's henchman Joe objects to keeping clergymen and choirboys prisoner at Christmas, partly because he hopes it would "tell in our favour, if ever we come to be tried", but also because it's "not Christmas dealing".
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The Box of Delights / int_38a57680	type	Flying Car
The Box of Delights / int_38a57680	comment	Flying Car: Abner's gang have several cars which can not only fly, but take off and land vertically in complete silence.
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The Box of Delights / int_479f9ad0	type	Characterization Marches On
The Box of Delights / int_479f9ad0	comment	Characterization Marches On: In The Midnight Folk Abner spoke in American English. Here he is posing as a British clergyman, and speaks British English consistently.
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The Box of Delights / int_5f3bb274	type	Late-Arrival Spoiler
The Box of Delights / int_5f3bb274	comment	Late-Arrival Spoiler: In The Midnight Folk, it's a big plot twist when Sylvia Daisy is revealed to be a member of Abner Brown's gang. In The Box of Delights, she's openly working with them.
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The Box of Delights / int_6828b109	type	Abridged for Children
The Box of Delights / int_6828b109	comment	Abridged for Children: The version printed at the time of the 1984 TV series was cut down from the original text.
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The Box of Delights / int_6bda9a30	comment	Meaningful Name: The Bishop is called Dr Chasuble (A chasuble is part of a clergyman's vestments). The other churchmen tend to have similarly descriptive names.
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The Box of Delights / int_7464705c	type	Arc Words
The Box of Delights / int_7464705c	comment	Arc Words: "The wolves are running."
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The Box of Delights / int_74ed89b2	type	Oracular Head
The Box of Delights / int_74ed89b2	comment	Oracular Head: Abner Brown attempts to get a useful answer out of a Brazen Head, without notable success.
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The Box of Delights / int_78d103c3	type	Exposition of Immortality
The Box of Delights / int_78d103c3	comment	Exposition of Immortality: Ramon Lully, aka Cole Hawlings, 14th century philosopher posing as a 1930s children's entertainer. His reveal comes courtesy of the villain, Abner Brown, who's been in pursuit of him for some time and shows his henchmen a book with pictures of Lully when he was alive which look remarkably like Hawlings.
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The Box of Delights / int_82d2715f	type	Magitek
The Box of Delights / int_82d2715f	comment	Magitek: Apart from the flying cars, Abner also has magically-animated guardians in the shapes of little cars and aeroplanes with wolves' heads.
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The Box of Delights / int_854e85b0	type	Casts No Shadow
The Box of Delights / int_854e85b0	comment	Casts No Shadow: Kay casts no shadow when travelling into the past in search of Arnold of Todi.
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The Box of Delights / int_859ec5d8	type	The Fair Folk
The Box of Delights / int_859ec5d8	comment	The Fair Folk: The fairies Kay summons are actually polite and helpful, but the Field Mouse is clearly terrified that they might be this trope.
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The Box of Delights / int_8cda3dc2	type	Flawed Prototype
The Box of Delights / int_8cda3dc2	comment	Flawed Prototype: Arnold of Todi considers the Box to be one, because it can only take you into European history. He claims to have built a better Box so he could visit Asian history, but we never hear what happened to it.
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The Box of Delights / int_8d23f3a7	type	Timey-Wimey Ball
The Box of Delights / int_8d23f3a7	comment	Timey-Wimey Ball: Using the Box to travel into the past takes you to a version of history where everything is happening at once. Kay arrives at the Fall of Troy, where an old woman says that she saw Arnold of Todi five hundred years before. Following his tracks, Kay leaves the city to find that the Greek encampment where he arrived has disappeared, and is promptly taken on board an eighteenth-century pirate galleon. The crew of the ship also remember meeting Arnold, who'd be from several hundred years in their past.
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The Box of Delights / int_8d25533e	type	Your Size May Vary
The Box of Delights / int_8d25533e	comment	Your Size May Vary: Rum-Chops and his crew of pirates seem to vary between rat size (when chasing Kay and his mouse friend) and human size (when they encounter the Bishop and his party escaping from captivity).
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The Box of Delights / int_91b5521d	type	Complete Immortality
The Box of Delights / int_91b5521d	comment	Complete Immortality: Discussed by Abner and Joe, when the latter wonders just what the Elixir of Life might be capable of — would it work if you were run over by a lorry, for example?
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The Box of Delights / int_a62dca03	type	Year Inside, Hour Outside
The Box of Delights / int_a62dca03	comment	Year Inside, Hour Outside: The first time Kay uses the Box to visit Herne in the forest, it takes only two minutes of time in the real world.
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The Box of Delights / int_a8a04f6f	type	And I Must Scream
The Box of Delights / int_a8a04f6f	comment	And I Must Scream: Abner threatens to flood Cole's dungeon, leaving him underwater. Abner is doubtful whether even the Elixir of Life would keep him alive in those conditions; but if it did, he'd be chained up underwater, with crayfish gnawing on him, forever.
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The Box of Delights / int_ac4c677f	type	De-power
The Box of Delights / int_ac4c677f	comment	De-power: It appears that once Caroline Louisa, who in the previous book was some kind of powerful guardian angel figure, became Kay's official guardian in the mundane world, she also became an ordinary adult with no connection to the supernatural world.
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The Box of Delights / int_b6025c77	type	Elixir of Life
The Box of Delights / int_b6025c77	comment	Elixir of Life: Cole knows how to make it, which is how he's lived since the 14th century.
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The Box of Delights / int_bce728ca	type	Mistreatment-Induced Betrayal
The Box of Delights / int_bce728ca	comment	Mistreatment-Induced Betrayal: Abner Brown's henchman Joe turns on him after Abner locks him in a cell and leaves him to die.
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The Box of Delights / int_cedeae6a	type	Wacky Wayside Tribe
The Box of Delights / int_cedeae6a	comment	Wacky Wayside Tribe: While Kay and his friends, reduced in size, are hiding from Abner's men, Kay blows a horn that wakens a group of fairies. They reward him for awakening them, help him to escape from his pursuers and then vanish from the story.
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The Box of Delights / int_d2c0e2ed	type	Schmuck Bait
The Box of Delights / int_d2c0e2ed	comment	Schmuck Bait: Written underneath a horn in letters of flame.
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The Box of Delights / int_d5c1bd82	type	Shakespeare in Fiction
The Box of Delights / int_d5c1bd82	comment	Shakespeare in Fiction: According to Abner, the Box passed through Shakespeare's hands.
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The Box of Delights / int_dae5c997	type	Action Girl
The Box of Delights / int_dae5c997	comment	Action Girl: Maria apparently got a load of revolvers off a robbber and practices with them. She also stole and crashed the Bishop's car. When she gets kidnapped, her siblings are incredibly unconcerned, saying she'll probably end up running the gang. (She doesn't, but she's pretty cool about the whole thing, and said she'd have dealt with it better if she'd been allowed to take a pistol.)
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The Box of Delights / int_de9cad68	type	Pike Peril
The Box of Delights / int_de9cad68	comment	Pike Peril: On Kays' first trip into the box, he is shown the natural world by Herne the Hunter, transforming into different animals each time they encounter a threat. When they are swimming in a stream as fish, the threat is a pike.
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The Box of Delights / int_e2ccee25	type	Animal Motifs
The Box of Delights / int_e2ccee25	comment	Animal Motifs: The antagonists are identified with wolves.
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The Box of Delights / int_ea85d6ea	type	All Just a Dream
The Box of Delights / int_ea85d6ea	comment	All Just a Dream: At the end of the novel, there's an outbreak of weirdness and then Kay wakes up and finds himself still on the train from school, having dreamed the entire adventure.
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The Box of Delights / int_ec7da60a	type	Beethoven Was an Alien Spy
The Box of Delights / int_ec7da60a	comment	Beethoven Was an Alien Spy: The historical Ramon Llull was not, as far as we know, an immortal magician.
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The Box of Delights / int_eff83d77	type	Mundane Utility
The Box of Delights / int_eff83d77	comment	Mundane Utility: On hearing about the Elixir of Life, Abner's henchman Joe immediately thinks of the profits that could be made from selling it in bulk.
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The Box of Delights / int_f5c7852d	type	Portal Picture
The Box of Delights / int_f5c7852d	comment	Portal Picture: At one point Cole escapes from Abner and his gang by transforming a painting of Switzerland into a portal that he can enter.
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The Box of Delights / int_f6861370	type	Living Drawing
The Box of Delights / int_f6861370	comment	Living Drawing: On Cole's urging, Kay draws various things into existence. To undo the chains holding Cole, he wants Kay to draw two men with hammers and chisels. Kay argues he's only reasonably able to draw horses and Cole is just fine with him drawing two hell horses to bite the chains to pieces and serve as mounts for the duo to escape. Kay does a masterful job, but too slowly to escape before the tide comes in and the hell horses refuse to go near the water. As such, Kay forces himself to draw a boat and ferryman to continue their escape.
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The Box of Delights / int_fe1b2e75	type	Bigger on the Inside
The Box of Delights / int_fe1b2e75	comment	Bigger on the Inside: The Box is small enough to hold in your hands, but contains historical tableaux into which the user can travel. There's also an oak tree which contains a full-sized room on the inside.
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